October 2024 books

Non-fiction 10 (YTD 73)
The Lunar Men: The Friends Who Made the Future, by Jenny Uglow
Yes Taoiseach: Irish Politics From Behind Closed Doors, by Frank Dunlop
New State, Modern Statesman: Hashim Thaçi – A Biography, by Roger Boyer and Suzy Jagger  
1066 and All That, by W.C. Sellar and R.J. Yeatman (I know, questionable as to whether it’s non-fiction, but it is presented as such)
Midnight, by Philip Purser-Hallard
Neurotribes: The Legacy of Autism and How to Think Smarter About People Who Think Differently, by Steve Silberman
Richard II: A Brittle Glory, by Laura Ashe
Ireland under Elizabeth and James I, ed. Henry Morley
Irish Demons, by Joan Fitzpatrick
Irish Historical Documents, 1172-1922, ed. Edmund Curtis & R.B. McDowell

SF 4 (YTD 76)
The Hanging Tree, by Ben Aaronovitch
Night Watch, by Terry Pratchett
A Friend of the Earth, by T.C. Boyle
Austria in the Year 2020, by Josef von Neupauer

Doctor Who 2 (YTD 28)
Burning Heart, by Dave Stone
Doctor Who: 73 Yards, by Scott Handcock

Comics 6 (YTD 28)
The Sapling: Branches, by Alex Paknadel et al
Monica, by Daniel Clowes
Sunstone, vol 2, by Stjepan Sejić
Return to Kosovo, by Gani Jakupi and Jorge González
Barcelona, âme noire, by Ruben Pellejero, Eduard Torrents, Martín Pardo, Denis Lapière, Gani Jakupi
Superman & Batman Generations 3: The 21st Century!, by John Byrne

5,700 pages (YTD 57,900)
4/22 (YTD 102/236) by non-male writers (Uglow, Jagger, Ashe, Fitzpatrick)
None (YTD 26/236) by a non-white writer
3/22 rereads (1066 and All That, Night Watch I think, Burning Heart)

267 books currently tagged unread, down 15 from last month, down 77 from October 2023.

Reading now
The Moonstone, by Wilkie Collins
The Peshawar Lancers, by S.M. Stirling
Tudor Court Culture, eds. Thomas Betteridge & Anna Riehl
The Geraldines: An Experiment In Irish Government 1169-1601, by Brian Fitzgerald

Coming soon (perhaps) 
The Ripper, by Tony Lee
Synthespians™, by Craig Hinton 
Doctor Who: Rogue, by Kate Herron and Briony Redman 
Ascension of the Cybermen & The Timeless Children, by Ryan Bradley
The Roommate of Anne Frank, by Nanda van der Zee
Lost Objects, by Marian Womack
What Might Have Been: The Story of a Social War, by Ernest Bramah
Marriage, by H.G. Wells
Authors of their Lives, by David Gerber
Collected Plays and Teleplays, by Flann O’Brien
Forever Peace, by Joe Haldeman 
The Good Earth, by Pearl S Buck 
Drowned Ammet, by Diana Wynne Jones 
The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories, eds Yu Chen & Regina Kanyu Wang 
The Word for World is Forest, by Ursula K. Le Guin 
The Light We Carry: Overcoming In Uncertain Times, by Michelle Obama 
Echoes: The Saga Anthology of Ghost Stories, ed. Ellen Datlow 
Freshwater, by Akwaeke Emezi 
Bellatrix, Tome 1, by Leo 
The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine, by Serhii Plokhy 
How I Learned to Understand the World, by Hans Rosling 
Lies Sleeping, by Ben Aaronovitch 
Once and Futurevol 5: The Wasteland, by Kieron Gillen, Dan Mora and Tamra Bonvillain 
Men at Arms, by Terry Pratchett